廣弘明集 7.10

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濟又云。今僧尼不耕不偶。俱斷生育傲君陵親。違禮損化。一不經也。觀濟此旨。專擬帝躬深知僧尼絕欲用則超生。斯義可從。固所不逆。然不偶斷育斥帝行之。無容顯論寄僧罵上也。又云。凡在生靈夫婦配合產育男女。胡法反之。多營泥木專求布施。寧非臣戾。二不經也。濟之不經。斯事顯也。胡法不婬。胡從何有泥木布施舉事見譏。然佛之非胡。乃為天種。胡乃戎類本異梵鄉。猶言神州號為漢地。今檢漢者止可方于梁。漢雖曰初封帝都在於京洛。自餘吳楚未曰中華。陸渾觀戎。又戎變夏矣。惟佛一法教絕色心。胡梵二種生生常習。

Ji also said: 'Nowadays monks and nuns do not plow and do not marry, all severing reproduction, showing haughtiness to the sovereign and slighting their parents, violating propriety and damaging transformation. This is the first unprincipled thing.'

[Daoxuan's rebuttal:] Examining Ji's intention here, he aimed it exclusively at the Emperor's own person. He knew deeply that when monks and nuns sever desire, through this practice they transcend rebirth; this principle is acceptable and certainly not to be opposed. Yet he denounced the Emperor's practice under the guise of not marrying and severing reproduction, and since he could not discuss it openly, he used the monks to revile the superior.

[Ji] also said: 'All living beings have husbands and wives uniting to produce sons and daughters; the Hu teaching reverses this. They extensively construct mud and wood [images] and exclusively seek alms—how is this not perverse to a subject? This is the second unprincipled thing.'

[Daoxuan's rebuttal:] The unprincipled nature of Ji's argument is manifest here. If the Hu teaching does not engage in lewdness, whence could the Hu have come? Mud, wood, and alms-seeking are brought up to mock them. However, the Buddha was not a Hu, but of heavenly lineage; the Hu are of the Rong kind, originally distinct from the Brahman realm. It is just like calling the Divine Land the land of Han: if we examine the Han today, it could only match Liang. Although the Han had its initial enfeoffment, its imperial capital lay in Jing and Luo; the rest, Wu and Chu, were not yet called China. When the Luhun Rong were reviewed, the Rong again transformed into the Xia. Only the single teaching of the Buddha brings about an end to form and mind; whereas both the Hu and the Brahmans constantly practice rebirth upon rebirth.